Wesley Brown

Tragic Magic (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Meet Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth - a Black twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch having been a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. Back in New York, hungry for freedom and desperate for companionship, Mouth quickly finds himself haunted by his past. Through a filmic series of flashbacks, we see Mouth's time in prison, his college days and, finally, his earliest high school days. Each street corner, subway ride and run-in with an old flame brings with it the echo of his previous life. The rhythm of blues and jazz is baked into each page, with the sounds of the city - barbershop talk, lively gossip, overheard conversations - imprinted in every word. Wesley Brown boldly explores magnetic representations of Black masculinity in crisis, with a style that's even more provoking than its subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Daunt Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781917092012
• Artikelnr.: 73573381

Autorenporträt

Wesley Brown is the author of three novels, a collection of short stories, five produced plays, wrote the narration for a segment of the PBS documentary, W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices, co-edited The Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights, 1970-2020 and recently published the novella, Blue in Green. He is a Professor Emeritus of English at Rutgers University and a former Visiting Professor in the Arts Division of Bard College at Simon's Rock.